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>Appendix J. Acronyms</H1
><P
>  This is a list of acronyms commonly used in the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
>
  documentation and in discussions about <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
>.

  <P
></P
></P><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>ANSI</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Institute"
TARGET="_top"
>      American National Standards Institute</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>API</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API"
TARGET="_top"
>Application Programming Interface</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>ASCII</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii"
TARGET="_top"
>American Standard
      Code for Information Interchange</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>BKI</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="bki.html"
>Backend Interface</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>CA</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority"
TARGET="_top"
>Certificate Authority</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>CIDR</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing"
TARGET="_top"
>Classless
      Inter-Domain Routing</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>CPAN</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://www.cpan.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>CRL</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list"
TARGET="_top"
>Certificate
      Revocation List</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>CSV</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values"
TARGET="_top"
>Comma
      Separated Values</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>CTE</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="queries-with.html"
>Common Table Expression</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>CVE</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://cve.mitre.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>DBA</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_administrator"
TARGET="_top"
>Database
      Administrator</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>DBI</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://dbi.perl.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>Database Interface (Perl)</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>DBMS</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbms"
TARGET="_top"
>Database Management
      System</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>DDL</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Definition_Language"
TARGET="_top"
>Data
      Definition Language</A
>, SQL commands such as <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE
      TABLE</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ALTER USER</TT
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>DML</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Manipulation_Language"
TARGET="_top"
>Data
      Manipulation Language</A
>, SQL commands such as <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>INSERT</TT
>,
      <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DELETE</TT
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>DST</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time"
TARGET="_top"
>Daylight
      Saving Time</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>ECPG</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="ecpg.html"
>Embedded C for PostgreSQL</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>ESQL</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_SQL"
TARGET="_top"
>Embedded
      SQL</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>FAQ</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ"
TARGET="_top"
>Frequently Asked
      Questions</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>FSM</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="storage-fsm.html"
>Free Space Map</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GEQO</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="geqo.html"
>Genetic Query Optimizer</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GIN</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="gin.html"
>Generalized Inverted Index</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GiST</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="gist.html"
>Generalized Search Tree</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>Git</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)"
TARGET="_top"
>Git</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GMT</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMT"
TARGET="_top"
>Greenwich Mean Time</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GSSAPI</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Security_Services_Application_Program_Interface"
TARGET="_top"
>Generic
      Security Services Application Programming Interface</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>GUC</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="config-setting.html"
>Grand Unified Configuration</A
>,
      the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> subsystem that handles server configuration
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>HBA</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="auth-pg-hba-conf.html"
>Host-Based Authentication</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>HOT</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/access/heap/README.HOT;hb=HEAD"
TARGET="_top"
>Heap-Only
      Tuples</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>IEC</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission"
TARGET="_top"
>International
      Electrotechnical Commission</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>IEEE</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://standards.ieee.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>Institute of Electrical and
      Electronics Engineers</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>IPC</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication"
TARGET="_top"
>Inter-Process
      Communication</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>ISO</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm"
TARGET="_top"
>International Organization for
      Standardization</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>ISSN</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issn"
TARGET="_top"
>International Standard
      Serial Number</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>JDBC</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Database_Connectivity"
TARGET="_top"
>Java
      Database Connectivity</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>LDAP</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol"
TARGET="_top"
>Lightweight
      Directory Access Protocol</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>MSVC</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C++"
TARGET="_top"
><SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>Microsoft
      Visual C</SPAN
></A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>MVCC</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="mvcc.html"
>Multi-Version Concurrency Control</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>NLS</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization"
TARGET="_top"
>National
      Language Support</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>ODBC</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity"
TARGET="_top"
>Open
      Database Connectivity</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>OID</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="datatype-oid.html"
>Object Identifier</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>OLAP</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olap"
TARGET="_top"
>Online Analytical
      Processing</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>OLTP</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLTP"
TARGET="_top"
>Online Transaction
      Processing</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>ORDBMS</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORDBMS"
TARGET="_top"
>Object-Relational
      Database Management System</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>PAM</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_Authentication_Modules"
TARGET="_top"
>Pluggable
      Authentication Modules</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>PGSQL</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="index.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
></A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>PGXS</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="extend-pgxs.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> Extension System</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>PID</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_identifier"
TARGET="_top"
>Process Identifier</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>PITR</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="continuous-archiving.html"
>Point-In-Time
      Recovery</A
> (Continuous Archiving)
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>PL</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="server-programming.html"
>Procedural Languages (server-side)</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>POSIX</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX"
TARGET="_top"
>Portable Operating
      System Interface</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>RDBMS</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database_management_system"
TARGET="_top"
>Relational
      Database Management System</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>RFC</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments"
TARGET="_top"
>Request For
      Comments</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SGML</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML"
TARGET="_top"
>Standard Generalized
      Markup Language</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SPI</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="spi.html"
>Server Programming Interface</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SQL</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL"
TARGET="_top"
>Structured Query Language</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SRF</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="xfunc-c.html#XFUNC-C-RETURN-SET"
>Set-Returning Function</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SSH</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell"
TARGET="_top"
>Secure
      Shell</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SSL</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer"
TARGET="_top"
>Secure Sockets Layer</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SSPI</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380493%28VS.85%29.aspx"
TARGET="_top"
>Security
      Support Provider Interface</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>SYSV</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V"
TARGET="_top"
>Unix System V</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>TCP/IP</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol"
TARGET="_top"
>Transmission
      Control Protocol (TCP) / Internet Protocol (IP)</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>TID</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="datatype-oid.html"
>Tuple Identifier</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>TOAST</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="storage-toast.html"
>The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>TPC</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://www.tpc.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>Transaction Processing
      Performance Council</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>URL</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL"
TARGET="_top"
>Uniform Resource
      Locator</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>UTC</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time"
TARGET="_top"
>Coordinated
      Universal Time</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>UTF</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://www.unicode.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>Unicode Transformation
      Format</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>UTF8</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf8"
TARGET="_top"
>Eight-Bit Unicode
      Transformation Format</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>UUID</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="datatype-uuid.html"
>Universally Unique Identifier</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>WAL</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="wal.html"
>Write-Ahead Log</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>XID</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="datatype-oid.html"
>Transaction Identifier</A
>
     </P
></DD
><DT
><ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>XML</ACRONYM
></DT
><DD
><P
>      <A
HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML"
TARGET="_top"
>Extensible Markup
      Language</A
>
     </P
></DD
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